Slavoj Zizek is an unusual philosopher with unfashionably inflexible left-wing views. He also loves Hollywood classics. The 59-year-old academic has written more than 30 books on subjects as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Lenin and 9/11. A self-proclaimed Leninist, the Slovenian thinker believes that “communism will triumph finally”. On his first visit to India this week, [...]

by Slavoj Zizek
from Lacan Dot Com
I. Through the Glasses Darkly (revisited, enlarged and re-edited)
John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), one of the neglected masterpieces of the Hollywood Left, is a true lesson in critique of ideology. It is the story of John Nada – Spanish for “nothing”! -, a homeless laborer who finds work on a [...]

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Double Death of Neoliberalism and the Idea of Communism
This event was recorded on 25 November 2009 in Old Theatre, Old Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Slavoj Zizek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of [...]

by Slavoj Žižek
from The London Review of Books
It is commonplace, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to hear the events of that time described as miraculous, a dream come true, something one couldn’t have imagined even a couple of months beforehand. Free elections in Poland with Lech Walesa as president: who would [...]

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Theodor Adorno
Minima Moralia
Hanna Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Etienne Balibar
Politics and the Other Scence
Jean Baudrillard
Forget Foucault
Sigmund Freud
The Complete Works of Freud
Simon Critchley
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
The Book of Dead Philosophers
Ernesto Laclau
Emancipation(s)
Chantal Mouffe
The Democratic Paradox
Gramsci and [...]

by Slavoj Žižek
from The New York Times
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this time of reflection, it is common to emphasize the miraculous nature of the events that began that day: a dream seemed to come true, the Communist regimes collapsed like a house of cards, and the [...]

Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Pierpaolo Antonello at the 2009 edition of ‘Pordenonelegge’, a Literary Festival held in Pordenone, Italy. September 2009.
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Theodor Adorno
Negative Dialectics
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Giorgio Agamben
Metropolis
Georges Bataille
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
Walter Benjamin
Illuminations
Gilles Deleuze
Having an Idea in Cinema
Michel Foucault
This is Not a Pipe
Security, Territory, Population
Discipline and Punish
The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Ian Hacking
The [...]

Interview with Slavoj Žižek: full transcript
by Jonathan Derbyshire
from the New Statesman
NS: What relationship, if any, do you think your work has to the mainstream, normative, liberal political philosophy done in English and American universities?
SZ: I noticed something — maybe I’m just generalising this; I don’t know to what extent this is a rule– I noticed [...]

by Slavoj Žižek
The title of this book is intended as an elementary IQ test for the reader: if the first association it generates is the vulgar anti-communist cliche-”You are right-today, after the tragedy of twentieth-century totalitarianism, all the talk about a return to communism can only be farcical!”-then I sincerely advise you to stop here. [...]

by Slavoj Žižekfrom LACAN.COM
Ideology in Hollywood? Let’s begin, quite arbitrarily, with Michael Apted’s Enigma (2001, scenario by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Robert Harris), which takes place in 1943, among the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park working day and night to crack the German “Enigma” code. They are rejoined by Tom Jericho, a troubled [...]